Monday, May 16, 2011

Main Squeeze

As you've seen recently, I cannot do anything in the kitchen without making a huge mess. Like tonight, when I pretty much spattered olive oil all over the stove frying sausage for dinner. Well, Saturday morning, I had just cleaned the kitchen when Mr. Pocket and I proceeded to make a colossal mess. You see, we had some lemons and some limes, all of which we needed to use before they go bad. And we have new citrus juicers. So... when life gives you juicers, you make lemonade, right?

Yum.

That picture was taken after we'd each poured ourselves a glass. It was a pretty tasty first batch of lemonade. Next time, I'm gonna try and make lavender lemonade.

Now, Sunday, the post-party letdown was finally starting to creep up on me. So Mr. Pocket packed me off to Mom's to do some crafting so I'd feel better. I did feel better by the time I came home for his German relatives' birthday party. His uncle and his other uncle's girlfriend have birthdays very close together, and since they're still here from the wedding, we were all celebrating both of them at his parents' house. So I made a card for each of them:

His uncle's was very mechanical, because he used to make tools. I had a lot of fun making it grungy and almost oily looking.

His uncle's girlfriend is very bright and cheerful and fun, so I knew I had to do something vibrant. When I asked what her favorite color is, she answered yellow. Oh no! The one color of ink I don't have! So I went with related colors, and did manage to find a paper with a little bit of yellow in it.

It was nice to be playing with papers and inks again. Now I just need to get back to yarn, too.